Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

I am SO looking forward to you NOT doing that.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.